Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-04
EASTERN.
Dr.. McGlynn's Reply to
Bishop COrrigan.
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New York, February 3.-The forth.
coming issue of the Standard, Henry
Georges newspaper, will contain the re-
ply of Rev. DR.. McGlynn, the depose d
priest Of st. Stephens church, to the
public statement upon the famous con
troversery made by Archbishop CJrri
gan few days ago. DR.. McGlynn's re.
ply fills six columns of the Standard
He begins as follows: "The letter OF
August 1882 from Cardinal Simeoni to
which Archbishop Corrigan refers, am
not able to find, hut it Is true, as he
states, that this letter complained Of my
land league speeches as Containing
propositions openly contrary to the
tea things of the Catholic Church. The
Doctrines thus stigmatized were those |
have held and taught before and since,
namely that all men are equally enti.
tied to the use of the general bounties of
nature, including land as well as sun.
light, air and water and that human laws
ought to be go changed as TO conform to
this dictate Of national justice. affirm
that while acknowledging tho righ. of
exclusive ownership in all that is pro.
duced by human industry, | would ct
the same time compel tn SO who enjoy
exclusively large or choice portion Of
the bounties Of nature to pay to the
community an equivalent in taxation to
the full amount Of the rental value.
1t is absolutely false, although ated
by Archbishop Corrigan on the authori-
ty of Cardinal McClosky, that "recog-
nized my errors and professed to
be sorry for them" On the con-
trery, in my interview with Car.
dinal McCloskey, ! reuffirmed the doc
trine and explained it and defen led
it fron Understandings and misap-
prehensions. l told him substantially
that knew my theology we'll enough
not to sin against it ignorantly, and that
I loved my religion too we'll to ein
against it wilfully. l voluntarily prom.
Used to abstain from making Land
League speeches.; not because l ac.
knowledged the right of any one to for
bid me, but because l knew we'll the
power OF my ecclesiastical superiors to
impair and almost destroy MY useful.
ness in the ministry of Christ's church,
to which had consecrated my life.'
DR.. McGlynn then gives at length two
letters from the Propaganda, one under
date OF September IL, 1882, directing
the suspension and disciplining of DR..
McGlynn for Land League speeches; the
other under date of May 10, 1888, call
ing attention to the fact that though
McGlynn had modified his tone he was
still speaking in favor of "Irish revolu-
tion," and one from Vicar General
Quinn to McGlynn dated May 81, con
veying a request that he should not
attend certain Land League meeting.
This meeting, McGlynn states. was to
be addressed by Alexander Sullivan, the
newly elected President. McGlynn as
serts that he had not expressed any IN
tention of attending it and that other
priests were similarly warned.
In reply to the complaint from Rome
of May, 1883, McGlynn wrote to Cardi-
nal McCloskey: IL regret very much
that the Cardinal Prefect has found new
cause for displeasure. The report in
some Boston journal OF a meeting must
have been that held in this city in Feb.
TuaIY last WUiCh Wao HcG - AhiAeA hShS, oS
meeting such as l had voluntarily prom
ised you not to attend, but was for the
relief of people suffering from famine in
Ireland, and was held by union OF
Irish county societies under the name
of the Irish Confederation of America.
l find in the journal the account OF
sending the money raised at
that meeting, with . n letter
to Bishop Nulty. showing it was
used to relieve distress in Ireland. l
enclose this article, aud l beg you to
consider it part of the letter. In speak.
ing for the relief of the distressed,
alluded to the. Injustice which is the
cause of it, and urged the duty Of re-
dressing such injustice.
In this thought was but favoring
that demand for justice to Ireland,
which was made by O'Connell and the
bishors and priests of Ireland, and by
many of our own, especially Archbishop
Hughes and which has been, think
commonplace in st. Pa.rick's Day ser
mons. + shall henceforth refuse to take
part in any such meeting even though
1t be for charitable objects.
McGlynn then quotes his letter, Civ
ing reasons for not taking the proffered
summer vacation trip to Rome to repre-
sent his case in person, saying that i
would interrupt plans for reducing hi
church debt, gives the text of his state
ment. his we'll known views on the lan(
question published in the Tablet, hold
ing that he was in accord with The
father of the church whose language h
Th.c h~anoht from
the Archbishop, as follows:
New YORK, July 2nd, 1883.
Reverend Dear Doctor;
The Cardinal has received copy o
this weeks Tablet containing your prom
ised statement. He desires me to asl
whether you accept this article as a cor
rect exposition of your views. He also
thinks it well to call attention to til,
fact that the passages attributed to st
Ambrose and st. Clement are commonly
considered spurious, and that st. AN
gustine in the passage alluded to is ar
guing ad hominem, that heretics can al
lege no right to church property.
I am Reverend, dear Doctor, very
truly yours, in Christ.
| (Signed) M. A. CoRRIGAN,
Coadjutor.
l answered as follows:
New YORK, 1883.
! Most Reverend and dear Archbishop
had sent for copy of the Tablet with
the intention of sending the promised
statement to the Cardinal and Arch
bishop and had just received it when
received your letter. l enclose for thu
Cardinal slip of the Tab
let containing tho statement.
am responsible for the article ant
/ accept it as a correct exposition of my
views. l am responsible for making the
quotations from Others to illustrate thu
truth that property, especially in land
has its duties as we'll as its rights. Blu
beyond this leave all responsibility fo
the passages, emitting purposely tt
translate them, to the authors them
selves and to corpus juris and to emf
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